US troops 'did not kill Iraqis'

[Barrett808]

US troops 'did not kill Iraqis'
From correspondents in Baghdad
10jan05

FIVE Iraqis killed in a bomb blast and firefight south of Baghdad were killed by insurgents and not US troops, as some Iraqi officials had reported, the US military said today.

A statement from the 1st Cavalry Division, issued a day after the military said it had no information on the incident, said a roadside bomb blast apparently targeting US troops on Saturday killed two men in Iraqi police uniforms and a civilian.

Afterwards, US soldiers came under small arms fire which missed them but killed two Iraqi civilians, the statement said.

"Three other civilians were wounded, most likely from insurgents," the statement said.

An Iraqi in a police uniform was wounded by US troops after having fired on them first.

The military suspected the men in police uniforms involved in the incident "were not actual members of the police force".

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http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,11903692%255E1702,00.html

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[leftchick]

2. It is 8 Iraqis Killed 12 Wounded by the US....

tell that to these folks....



I will believe the witnesses on the ground including an AP photograher who saw the whole thing over the US propaganda any day!
And it is EIGHT people killed 12 wounded...

BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops opened fire near a checkpoint after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, and a hospital official said yesterday that at least eight people were killed in the second mistaken American attack in two days to have deadly results.

Separately, south of Baghdad, seven Ukrainian soldiers and one from Kazakhstan were killed in an apparently accidental explosion at an ammunition dump.

U.S. officials said they had no information about the shooting at the checkpoint, which occurred overnight Saturday. Interior Ministry spokesman Colonel Adnan Abdul-Rahman said a U.S. convoy was hit by a roadside bomb near a police checkpoint in Yussifiyah, 15 kilometres south of Baghdad, and troops opened fire, killing two police officers and three civilians.

Anmar Abdul-Hadi, a doctor at the al-Yarmouk hospital, said eight people were killed in the attack and 12 were wounded.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050110/IRAQBOMBS10/TPInternational/Americas

[Cocoa]

3. good thing there aren't many reporters in Iraq

it's just the word of the U.S. military against the word of the "sovereign" (hahahaha!) government.

This will be especially helpful during the upcoming death-squad era of Iraq.

[Massachusetts]

4. Flash..............

From correspondents in La La land......U.S. Troops not in Iraq....:wtf:

[daleo]

5. Maybe Saddam's invisible weapons of mass destruction got them

So much for Bush credibility.

[DulceDecorum]

6. American humanitarian efforts in Iraq

Since the spring of 2003, American forces have been laboring under the most dangerous circumstances imaginable to help rebuild Iraq. Even as fighting was taking place mere kilometers away from them, American and allied troops were working to restore electrical power, rebuild schools and hospitals, deliver potable water and medicine, and perform any number of other vitally important jobs.

American humanitarian efforts in Iraq have been Herculean, yet have been barely touched on by the establishment media, which prefers instead to focus on rare foibles by individual soldiers, death tolls and perceived policy failures.

This disparity of news coverage suggests the political agenda of the liberal media in America. The humanitarian aspects of our military in response to a random geological disaster are favorably noted, but similar efforts over a far longer period of time in conjunction with a war against tyranny and terror are virtually ignored.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200501%5CCOM20050107a.html

[Ms. Clio]

7. "rare foibles by individual soldiers"

That tells me all I need to know about this laughable propaganda.

Cybercast News Service is clearly another World Nut Daily--did you notice Brent Bozell's column?

[Taxloss]

8. And the prize for "Least specific headline" goes to ...

To be honest, my first thought was that a reporter had discovered some troops who have gone for days without killing a single Iraqi, and he rushed back to file this story.